There's no place like Mongolia for an amazing adventure

Beautiful one day, perfect the next

Our mountain biking trails offer unrivaled off-road experiences for all standards of cyclists. Some of the trips are demanding, designed to test experienced mountain bikers, whilst other routes will prove an exhilarating journey possible for those with little off-road experience.

Let's Experience The Adventure Together

An off-road trail bike adventure is now a real possibility in this remote and undiscovered part of the World. Enjoy the breathtaking contrast between desert, steppe & mountain scenery whilst we take care of your comfort, safety and all the logistics.

Dramatic landscape in a remote corner of the world

The remote snow capped peaks of Uvs province are the setting for a truly wild and adventurous trek in Western Mongolia, where you will be delighted by the unspoiled beauty of this vast and varied country.

The adventure of a lifetime

Adventure Tours in Mongolia

Summer in Mongolia brings the opportunity to have a unique wilderness experience– no crowds – just mountains, steppe, forest, rivers and spectacular flora and fauna. Besides which the nomadic culture is a fascinating aspect of every tour we do in Mongolia. The basis of every trip is centred on the experience of the visitor and aims to extend your knowledge and enjoyment of Mongolia. Your tour will be led by a person who is highly qualified and experienced, and most importantly, dedicated to giving you a great impression of our country. We strongly believe that you should benefit from high quality kit that is perfectly suited to its purpose and to Mongolian conditions. Off The Map Tours are unique in providing our guests with the best vehicles, bikes, and camping equipment.

Download our new summer brochure 2017 in PDF format with details of all dated group tours for summer. Easy to print selected pages.

Inspiring Adventure

We offer a range of different activities in spectacular surroundings.

Off The Map Tours have been organising adventure trips in Mongolia since 1998 and we specialize in mountain biking and motorcycle tours, as well as horse riding, hiking and cultural and overland expeditions. We have a schedule of group tours running throughout the summer tourist season, and we also organize private tailor-made tours and charity fund-raising challenges for large groups.

TRAIN JOURNEY

Whether you are looking to discover the unique surroundings of the Gobi Desert, or the dramatic scenery of one of Mongolia's great mountain ranges, we have a range of tours you can choose from. Mongolia is recognized as one of the most remote destinations in the world; with ibex, wolves, eagles and gazelle combining with canyons, caves, remote lakes and rugged cliffs, coming together to create an unforgettable experience.

Tourism in Mongolia

Tourism in Mongolia was extremely limited by the Communist Government, but has been expanding following the 1990 Democratic Revolution in Mongolia in the wake of the break-up of the USSR and the Revolution of 1989. Mongolia is a unique and relatively unexplored travel destination that offers a great combination of scenic natural features, a wide variety of untouched landscapes, nomadic life style and culture.

Travel organizations in Mongolia date back to half a century ago, but the private sector-based tourism is only twenty years old. With one of the world's lowest population densities, the vastness of the Mongolian grassland, desert, as well as the numerous mountains, rivers and lakes offer plenty of adventure.

2017 Summer Group Tours

We organize several fixed date group trips to Mongolia including mountain biking, motorcycling, horse riding, trekking and cultural trips. You are welcome to join as an individual or if there are several friends together. This is a good way to travel in Mongolia if you want the companionship of others and to meet some interesting people.

1 - 9 June 2017

Mountain bike group tour in northern Mongolia beginning with an overnight train to the start point.

4 - 12 August 2017

Deglii Tsagaan Mountain

Dominated by lakes, deserts and huge mountains, Uvs province offers some of the most forbidding terrain in the country. This province of 102,000 inhabitants in the north-west of Mongolia, lies at the junction of the Altai and Khangai mountain chains and borders onto the Republic of Tuva in Russia.

Explanation:

We have a summer schedule of group tours which we plan to run from the start of the tourist season in June through to the end of September. These trips have fixed dates and are open to individuals or groups of friends. We need a minimum group size of 4 people to guarantee to run a trip, although sometimes we might do it with less people.

If you join a trip with a friend, you can share your tent or ger with them. If you are by yourself, you can either share with another single person in the group, or you can pay a modest single supplement and have a tent to yourself. At ger camps it is not always possible to get a single ger, it depends how busy they are, so you might have to share with another person in our group.

For groups of 4 or more people we can organise a private tailor made trip according to your dates and interests. The price depends on the number of people in your group; if there are more participants to share costs then the price per person will be lower. Trips can run during the tourist season between June and September.

If you are joining one of our scheduled tours and you want to stay longer in Mongolia, or if you want us to arrange anything for you in China or Russia, we can do that. It is easy for us to make extra hotel reservations for you, or if you are interested in doing something else we may be able to arrange it depending on what you want to do and how busy we are with other group tours. Train tickets to and from Ulaanbaatar and Beijing or Moscow, can be provided and if you want sightseeing tours, accommodation and transport or other services in China or Russia we can arrange everything using our experienced agents.

We provide the ground operations in Mongolia for tours arranged by several travel companies based in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, United States and Chile. We also provide the services for charities doing large-group fund-raising challenges in Mongolia. If your organisation would like to do tours in Mongolia, get in touch to discuss what we can organise for you.

Why Choose Us ?

We wish to introduce our guests to the beauty of Mongolia, its rich history, and the people and their fascinating lifestlye. We care for the environment in how we enable people to enjoy the visit and run our tours. Also we believe that you should have an experience with the highest quality service and we work hard to ensure this is delivered.

QUALITY

For your pleasure and safety, we provide the best and most suitable equipment. This includes the support vehicles, motorbikes and mountain bikes and the camping equipment. Additionaly, our experience has shown that excellent organisation is essential for an adventure tour to run as smoothly as it is possible, given the unpredictable nature of such a trip.

EXPERIENCE

It is our main objective to give you a really great experience in Mongolia. That is why our programme has been designed to give you as many opportunities and tour some of the best environments anywhere in Mongolia. Our staff bring passion, knowledge and expertise to every tour and work hard to tailor your experience.

SUSTAINABILITY

We know that tourism can be a force for good, bringing benefits to local communities, helping preserve environments and providing real and positive social exchanges. We are members of responsibletravel.com which assures you we are operating sustainably. Mongolia only opened up to international tourists in the 1990's and as yet has been unspoiled by mass tourism.

What Our Customers Think

"We were very impressed with the organisation, variety of terrain and scenery, the food - delicious ! We think this just might be the best catered trip we have been on - the support, the bikes and their maintenance and the team in general. We will certainly be telling all our friends about how professional this trip was. We had a great time"

We wish that we had more time to spend in Mongolia. What a fascinating place. Not only the Naadam Festival in Ulaanbaatar, but the many mini - Naadam Festivals we encountered in the countryside as well as the people and scenery were fantastic...

"We really enjoyed our time in Mongolia with the off-road experience and closeness to nature. The experience at the family ger was an emotional one. It struck a chord with me, somewhere deep inside. I could see the sense in their simple way of life, which I have not really been able to see in ours in the west"

"We really enjoyed all aspects of our trip. The itinerary was well organized. We felt like we had a good taste of the country. We especially liked meeting the nomadic family. The accommodations and food were all satisfying as well"

Many thanks for a great holiday in Mongolia it was amazing ! My dad finally managed to visit the place he had been speaking about for 30 years and it was everything and a lot more he ever imagined it to be, so thanks again for looking after us so well...

"Thanks very much for looking after us and our arrangements in Mongolia. We enjoyed the tour immensely and loved the sites, scenery and sense of solitude this country gives you. It was a lovely adventure, thanks again"

The staff was extremely dedicated and the bike route took us to places of extraordinary beauty and diverse landscape of Mongolia. This mountain biking trip certainly was the most challenging and memorable one so far...

Wild camping tours

English speaking tourists

Fully supported tours

Ger camp tours

Why Us?

All the tours we do are to remote areas of Mongolia, far from good medical facilities. We are very conscious of this, which is why we give you plenty of advice before your tour about what to bring and how to train for a tour. We take our responsiblity for your safety seriously but clients must also remember that their behaviour, medicines, clothing and fitness will affect their enjoyment of the trip.

Of course, an adventure tour is by it's nature unpredictable and risky. But one can reduce the risks whilst maintaining the fun and excitement. We do this by providing good pre-tour advice, reliable vehicles, suitable equipment, and experienced staff.

We started running tours in Mongolia in 1998. Initially we did only mountain biking trips as that is our speciality, but later we branched out into hiking, horse riding and cultural trips. Since 1998 we have organized several charity fund-raising challenge events for UK charities including Macmillan, PDSA, the Girl Guides, Antony Nolan and others, often raising over £100,000 for the chosen charity.

In 2005 we bought our first fleet of Yamaha WR250F motorcycles and started doing motorbike tours. Since 2010 we have been replacing our Yamaha bikes with KTM 450EXC bikes and nowadays many of our tours are on motorbikes.

Most of the equipment that we use on tour has been imported to Mongolia from the UK. This includes our Land Rover Defender vehicles and ex-British army Reynolds Boughton RB44 trucks. Our motorbikes, camping equipment and tools are also good quality and have been chosen because they are most suitable for purpose and can withstand the tough conditions.

We do not take short cuts with safety and medical equipment, so for example on motorcycle tours we always carry a satellite phone and comprehensive medical kit. Take a look at the photos in our on-line Gallery and videos on the Video page and you will get an idea of the tour support and equipment

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